The South is notoriously friendly. It is also notoriously bigoted. In 2006, the year I moved to Nashville, an anti-marriage equality proposition passed. It felt like a slap in the face and a sign to leave. Six years later, I couldn’t be more happy that I stayed.

Topics include finding quality queer books, the Pultizers, Maya Angelou, a big week at the Lesbrary, SO MANY EVENTS and what we’ve been reading.

105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.

This week on Glee, everybody came back to Ohio for brunch at The Cracker Barrel and sang Stevie Wonder songs.

“Put in the effort, put yourself out there and you will be rewarded with a really, really good time!”

Here at Autostraddle, we love kickass women. We’re presenting a list of 20 of our favorite kickass fictional heroines as a way to jumpstart this feelingsfest and leaving the rest up to you!

On flappers, Zelda Fitzgerald, and sleeping around.

The week on Pretty Little Liars everyone is snooping around and we catch up on some Deep Thoughts with Melissa Hastings.

In our last recamp, we party at the pool, dance all night, have feelings, display talent, and wish it never had to end.

The same artsy shots, repeating scenes, and haunting dialogue that make it indie/creative/experimental just make it boring/repetitive/annoying. It doesn’t take stupidity to task, it glorifies it.

In which some Dykes on Bikes take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Start your engines.

Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.

This week on Glee, The New Rachel dreamed a dream that Glee was good again and Marley-Kate wrote some songs with Lord Tubbington and Finn missed sociology!

“It’s important not just to have characters that challenge ideas about gender and sex, but to also have them in realistic settings.”

“I could almost hear them thinking, “Is this really happening?” I know this because at some point, I started watching the audience to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating.”

In which Erika Moen, the mastermind behind DAR! and Oh Joy, Sex Toy, tells us to go have a wank.

Don’t fire me for being fabulous.

This week on “Glee,” everybody played dress-up and some people cried and some people yelled at each other and some people were gay and had pillows.

“You’re marching gallantly to your grave Laneia. We all are. We’re all spinning spinning spinning just grazing fingertips on things in hopes we’ll leave a mark. Anyway you should stop opening your mouth so wide when you brush your teeth. Keep those wrinkles down.”

Check out this list of queer prairie sites to visit when you’re not reading A Prairie Homo Companion.